Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment/Definitions
The following are terms related to the environment and environmentalism that are sometimes used incorrectly. Editors are encouraged to use these terms correctly…
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Definitions
The following are terms related to the environment and environmentalism that are sometimes used incorrectly. Editors are encouraged to use these terms correctly.
- Conservation: environmental protection, especially as related to appropriate or reduced use of natural resources.
- Conservationist: an individual who believes in or practices conservation.
- Conservation biology: a scientific discipline that deals with human effects on species, communities, or ecosystems, or deals with their protection.
- Conservation biologist: a scientist working in the field of conservation biology.
- Environmentalist: an individual who believes in or practices any form of environmental protection.
- Environmentalism: the movement concerned with protecting the natural environment from human-caused harm.
- Environmental science: a multidisciplinary scientific discipline that draws on biology, chemistry, and geology, among other sciences, to study the relationships between human beings and the natural environment.
- Environmental scientist: a scientist working in the field of environmental science.
- Environmental social science: the broad, transdisciplinary study of interrelations between humans and the natural environment.
- Ecology: scientific discipline that deals with the interrelationships of organisms and/or their abiotic environment.
- Ecologist: a scientist working in the field of ecology.
- Preservationist: an individual who believes in, or works to, protect functional, largely pristine, ecosystems from human impacts.
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- Environment as in natural environment, wildlife, ecological succession
- Environmental issues as in pollution, global warming, waste, Exxon Valdez
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— Note that the conservation of species or habitats as defined in the science of ecology is considered by this project as a subset of environmental topics.
A topic that is generally, but not divisively omitted from this project:
- Ecology – the study of species and ecosystems in natural environments— Refer to WikiProject Ecology.
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